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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor Emeritus
University of Waterloo, Canada

Updated with quotes for June 2017:

Classic:
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
— Thomas Jefferson, letter, 1816.

Direct:
To educate people means to train them, yes, but constantly to go beyond training: to foster discussion and debate, field questions and encourage independent work, counter fragmentation by demanding wholeness, thus to enable people to become still more, thus to set them free.
— First Sociology, p. 395.

Garden moment for June 2017:

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